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8327318 No.8327318 [Reply] [Original]

New proto soon
https://www.twitch.tv/hiddenpalace

>> No.8327325

They won't even say what console is going to be featured for fear of losing those precious views and in favor of wasting my fucking time.

>> No.8327335

>>8327325
These nuts are going to be featured on your chin.

>> No.8327375

>>8327335
One of your mom's family videos.

>> No.8327387

OH SHIT GOEMON

>> No.8327407
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8327407

>Mystical Ninja Goemon Zero (Aug 26, 2005 prototype)
Localization prototype for a game that never left Japan. Allegedly this was completed but its release was blocked by Sony over "sub-par" graphics (the game was nearly 5 years old in Japan by the time this was made)

>> No.8327427

The models and animations in this game are rough. Reminds me of freeware PC games from the early 2000s.

>> No.8327434

>>8327427
It seems to be one of a launch titles or very early releases judging by 2000 release date. That's why it looks so rough.

>> No.8327441

>>8327407
>let's localize a 5 year old game as a last ditch effort to save our company
Working Designs were truly geniuses.

>> No.8327474

It's crazy how many prototypes are coming out these days. Even 5 years ago we'd be lucky to get a couple of them a year. Now it seems we get one every week.

>> No.8327502

>>8327474
It's pretty much just chance, honestly. Not sure if it were COVID giving some people more time to sell shit or dump prototypes, but unfortunately it probably won't last.

It's too bad there aren't more SNES and NES era protos getting dumped now, but I guess given that those are older, less plentiful, and more collectible, it isn't too surprising that most modern dumps are more concentrated in the disc/HDD era. That whole Nintendo hack thing was just huge luck, sadly most other older prototypes have to be located the old fashioned way.

>> No.8327636

>>8327407
I'll never understand the seething hatred Sony has always harbored towards gamers and fun video games. What a cancerous company.

>> No.8327667

>>8327441
They needed those 5 years to fuck up the gameplay and butcher the original script with the lamest jokes. Everyone can make shit, but few can make top shit. As the shittiest, Working Designs takes pride in spending years to bring to your home the worst experience possible.

>> No.8328042

>>8327318
They finally delivered.

>> No.8328265

>>8327636
It’s not a good game.

>> No.8328403 [DELETED] 

>>8327407
>Goemon
LOOK OUT YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT THAT GAME IT HAS AN OFFENSIVELY DEBILITATING SLUR!

I was so triggered omfg don't talk about ANY goemon games or we'll CANCEL YOU!!

>> No.8328990
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8328990

>>8328403
>>8327407
lmao

>> No.8329469

>>8327441
Working Designs are assholes but SCEA is at fault here. The game was out in Japan around 2000 and the English localization was supposed to be done by 2002, then it kept getting delayed continuously because of SCEA's demands.

It's also the reason why:
the Growlanser PS2 games were delayed one year,
Natsume's English version of Chulip (2002 Japanese release) was delayed from 2004 to freaking 2007,
near complete versions of Sakura Taisen 1's PS2 remake and Sakura Taisen 1+2's direct ports on PSP were vetoed because SCEA considered them "non-games" (but would then reverse course after Ace Attorney's success, not only approved by Nintendo but they even bankrolled the European localizations)
why Namco was averse to localizing their 2D Tales on PS2,
why Chaos Wars has a shitty English dub (SCEA would veto it unless it was English VA only, or English/Japanese dual audio, and so they made the shitty dub just to get it approved. Symphony of the Night's English dub was a similar story and recorded in just under one week because SCEA told them they'd reject it otherwise, the E3 demo used JP audio)

None of these games had "controversial sexual content" or were low quality compared to stuff SCEA did approve.

>> No.8329623

>>8329469
I can't wait to see Sony crash and burn and become the next Sega now that they've abandoned all domestic support and went all in on California.

>> No.8329687

>paid $10,000 for a shitty platformer with a script translation that could have been done by someone from ROMhacking.net if anyone ever gave a fuck
>that shyster in NYC already had a copy on hand anyway
Where's the fucking plushie scans, Saz

>> No.8329740

>>8329687
No one would give enough fucks, there are more deserving untranslated PS2 hidden gems than this, and the very fact it's known to have a finished English version is dissuading people from translating this (or Tengai Makyou Ziria X360 for that matter).

The translation has some problems, and still needs some romhacks too: to enable the improved lighting system WD/Konami added, to translate some rare strings left in Japanese, to add extra linebreaks here and there to fix formatting issues, etc.
WD really wanted to get this right to license more Konami games, so they left in the Japanese dub (likely rejection reason) and took very few liberties with the text seemingly.